February 9, 2013

People who are single yet wish to have biological children are increasingly turning to nonromantic co-parenting arrangements.

Commissioner Bud Selig dispatched two of his top advisers to Miami to ask the editor of a weekly newspaper to share documents that reportedly link a number of player to performance enhancers.

The photos and messages sent through an app called Snapchat vanish in seconds. And that disappearing act has made the tiny start-up a technology hit.

Some want to apply the model of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court, which reviews eavesdropping on American soil, to the targeted killings of terrorism suspects.

For almost a decade, the idiosyncratic designer has been a force within the fashion world but little-known outside it. That changed on Jan. 21.

Alan Lapes, a major private operator of homeless shelters in New York City, runs them as a for-profit organization, charging the city many times what the rooms would normally rent for.

A young man from Dara’a, Syria, carries a burden — maybe an honor, too: He knows that he and his friends helped start an uprising.

Mr. Karlin, a Bell Labs industrial research psychologist, was also instrumental in the shortening of telephone cords and the creation of rectangular keypads for touch-tone models.

The Bronx Beer Hall is bringing craft brews and fresh faces to an Italian market that has been a Bronx mainstay.

For some parents of children with mental illnesses, navigating the warren of hospitals, insurers, courts and social services can be overwhelming. A Manhattan lawyer offers assistance.

Many former stay-at-home mothers have thrown themselves into volunteer work for the victims of Hurricane Sandy, some devoting seven days a week to the task.

A midwinter storm buried several states in snow, leaving behind a debilitated region digging through plump white drifts and reeling from gale-force winds.